# B1.13 of AWDwR is now available

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**Created:** [October 5, 2006, 11:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/b1-13-of-awdwr-is-now-available/71192 "2006-10-05T23:17:56Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 11:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/b1-13-of-awdwr-is-now-available/71192/1 "2006-10-05T23:17:56Z")

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Folks:

I’ve uploaded the B1.13 version of AWDwR.

I’ve updated the Action View chapter: it now uses form\_for for model-  
based forms,  
which will help with the eventual transition to Simply Helpful in  
Rails 2. I also  
show custom form builders.

I’ve also fixed all reported errata in the new content: I’ll be  
working on Action Mailer  
soon, so haven’t bothered to work on errata fro the old edition yet.

I need to stress that the book is written on the assumption that the  
reader has  
Rails 1.2 installed. As that doesn’t yet exist, you HAVE TO HAVE EDGE  
RAILS  
for some of this stuff to work. Some folks like the following  
description  
of working with Edge:

[http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/07/11/installing-and-managing-](http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/07/11/installing-and-managing-)  
edge-rails/

As usual, the update is available for free from

```
http://books.pragprog.com/titles/rails2/reorder

```

Enter just two of the three pieces of information to identify your PDF.  
I recommend using your order number and your email address, as these  
tend  
to be be the most consistent.

A note on errata: please do keep them coming in. However, as I’ll be  
rewriting the chapters from the first edition (the ones with the gray  
headers and footers) you might not want to stress too much about things  
you find in these. Also, errata about bad page breaks and missing cross  
references will be silently but brutally deleted, simply because that  
kind of stuff is not really important until we come to finish the book.  
Similarly, the entire index will be reworked when the book is finished,  
so reporting missing index entries probably won’t help much…

Thanks for your support for this project. Keep the comments  
coming in.

Cheers

Dave T.